I'm putting mine towards my savings of either a newer car (currently drive a '99 Civic, on the lookout for around a '05 Impreza (base model)) or a new motorcycle. I'm liking the new 2013 Ninja 650. I can't do both though : (

Paid off one of our cars (yippee!!!! ), paid off credit cards (and moved them out of our POCKETS and into a SAFE), will be doing several small home upgrades, and keeping the rest in savings.

Purchases are minimal... I bought a 5-piece KEF Q-series set from a rich lady who was getting rid of them cheap on Craigslist ($400 for speakers worth over $2000 when bought new). Major score there! Bought my best friend's Acoustic Research powered sub for cheap; now we just need a decent receiver. Gotta get some clothes for my new job, and that's about it! I really don't shop much for myself anymore. Must happen with age.

"No I don't want the Ask toolbar! No I don't want Bing as my default search! No I don't want to make Chrome my default browser!""Good grief, man! WHAT are you trying to install on that poor computer?""Antivirus."

Dunno. Friends of ours are getting married in California next year, so it could be put away for the trip, but my wife's changing careers and going back to school so it'll probably end up getting used for that.

People use tax refunds as savings accounts sadly...I guess they aren't disciplined enough to save up otherwise. Gov't doesn't need an interest free loan from me so I rarely get a refund, my taxes are pretty straightforward too though. I've also read that lots of people use refunds to pay down debts or for savings too, who knows whether that's what really happens.

There aren't really any new toys I want so it's mostly just going to be saved for\used to recover baby related incidentals... This time next year I could see myself eyeing a Razer Edge 2.0 - we'll see...

It always surprises me on how tasteless some of these mansions are. Rich people are boring. They all do the same stuff. "Buy excessively large house, have it decorated by 60 year old woman" "buy several hundred million dollar yacht to compete with other super rich people" "buy veyrons and mclarens". Boring. Being super wealthy opens up new avenues to how weird you can be.

Buy a cargo ship and convert it into a floating hotel with a racetrack and a jump on the bow so you can drive your motorcycle off of it and deploy your parachute over the ocean.

Purchase a tropical island then build your own treefort community on it and re enact lord of the flies.

Buy a Pinto Wagon and have it restored with a carbon fiber body then put some fancy twin turbo engine in it.

It always surprises me on how tasteless some of these mansions are. Rich people are boring. They all do the same stuff. "Buy excessively large house, have it decorated by 60 year old woman" "buy several hundred million dollar yacht to compete with other super rich people" "buy veyrons and mclarens". Boring. Being super wealthy opens up new avenues to how weird you can be.

We definitely need a more creative class of rich people. In the movies, rich people buy volcanic islands and hollow it out to put a submarine base to launch their plans for world domination. In real life, they buy iPhones with diamonds on them. Bleh.

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It always surprises me on how tasteless some of these mansions are. Rich people are boring. They all do the same stuff. "Buy excessively large house, have it decorated by 60 year old woman" "buy several hundred million dollar yacht to compete with other super rich people" "buy veyrons and mclarens". Boring. Being super wealthy opens up new avenues to how weird you can be.

We definitely need a more creative class of rich people. In the movies, rich people buy volcanic islands and hollow it out to put a submarine base to launch their plans for world domination. In real life, they buy iPhones with diamonds on them. Bleh.

There is a fairly small number of multi-billionaires. Millionaires really can't afford much in the grand scheme of things, so it limits their options.